title: Statistics and causality: separated to reunite-commentary on Bryan Dowd's "separated at birth".
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596, USA. judea@cs.ucla.edu
authors.forename: Judea
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pearl
mesh_terms: D015984:Causality; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D012942:Social Sciences; D013223:Statistics as Topic